The story did not begin with Israel’s announcement that it had found the body of prisoner Ran Gueli in the Gaza Strip. There, where war is meant to end and silence begin, Palestinian cemeteries were turned into sites of military operations. In the search for a single body, hundreds of graves were opened and the dead removed from their final resting places. It was a brutal journey through Palestinian cemeteries. Destroying the memory of the dead in GazaThe exhumation of around 250 Palestinian graves to recover one Israeli prisoner signals a grim new phase of the war.